MOU IS A JOKE AND NORWEGIANS
ARE JOKERS

Tikri Banda

The breakaway faction of the Tamil Tiger rebel RMVP's (Karuna faction)
demand to Norwegian mediators to withdraw from Sri Lanka's peace process,
claiming 'Norwegians haven't stopped the Tigers from killing their political
rivals' should be considered by the Sri Lanka Government and all concerned
fair-minded Tamils as well as the Sinhalase, as a step at the right
direction.

Such statements coming from a peace loving section of the Tamil people
in Sri Lanka denouncing and accusing the main rebel body (LTTE) of killing
scores of their opponents before and during the current 32-month truce
with the government have be taken up seriously and backed up to exert
International pressure to get rid of Norwegians who have shown duplicity
on the premise of a peace negotiation. There has been no opportune moment
to expose the LTTE as real terrorists under the guise of a peace agreement
brokered by Norwegians who apparently have been taking fire under the
water.

Amidst LTTE's continued killing of RMVP members, their having the courage
to stand up, challenge and say openly to the Norwegian Prime Minister
Kjell Magne Bondevik that, "If Norway could not stop (the) killings
... it is not worthy to continue as mediator," should be considered
as an urgent plea, coming from a desperate section of peace loving Tamils.
This is an urgent demand, which needs to be addressed Internationally
to expose the Norwegians of their double game.

In an open letter recently by the RMVP leader Karuna explicitly highlighted
how Norwegians have funded the terrorist group LTTE up to £250,000
plus arms and sophisticated electronic equipment just to kill their
opponents. One does not need to be a professor or an expert in International
politics or affairs to understand the dangerous role Norwegians have
been playing all along and are still trying to push their luck by favouring
the LTTE only to make another section of the suffering Tamil people
fodder for the LTTE terrorists.

When the whole world is hell bent on eradicating the terrorist menace
today, why on earth are the International community turning a blind
eye to what Norwegians are doing in Sri Lanka? Let those responsible
in the government circles and peace loving people in Sri Lanka now speak
with one voice and endorse firmly what the TMVP has highlighted in their
letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister: "If Norway continues to
facilitate the peace process it will only encourage the Liberation Tigers
of Tamileelam's killings." Let the USA and UK who have gone mad
recently in eradicating terrorism in Iraq take an interest in Sri Lanka
where there is a core situation with increasing terrorism and killing.
Let both the USA and UK who boast about their willingness to wipe out
terrorism from the globe come forward to help the growing unhealthy
terrorist situation in Sri Lanka as they have every right to act according
to what they preach, and most of all both these countries have banned
and included the LTTE as a terrorist organisation.

In the light of the present developments it is high time that President
Chandrika Kumaratunge use her Executive Presidential Powers, taking
the TMVP appeal as serious eye opener and as a basis to scrap the meaningless
MOU signed with the Norwegians, which has only given an open passport
to the LTTE terrorists to carry out their killing activities of their
opponents willy nilly.

The time is now ripe Sri Lanka for you to speak up and stand up for
the innocent and peace loving Tamils, both in the North and the East,
and to distinguish the difference between the Terrorist LTTE who are
hell bent only in killing, as opposed to the TMVP who has promised not
only to annihilate the mass murderer Prabhakaran but to bring peace,
democracy and unity among the Tamils.

Sri Lanka must be the only country where a government engaged in a
terrorist war is helping the terrorists by giving them Air force and
Army escorts for terrorists to travel about, bringing them from their
terrorist controlled areas to Colombo by Air Force helicopters, placing
them on 5 star hotels in Colombo and then sent by Sri Lankan Airlines
abroad only to lambaste the very government at International meetings.
Sri Lanka qualifies for an International Joker's award.